Staff Product Designer, Design Foundations

4 Months ago • 7 Years + • Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Patreon seeks a Staff Product Designer for its Design Foundations team. This role focuses on shaping the platform's user experience, ensuring a cohesive visual system aligned with the brand. Responsibilities include defining and refining Patreon's visual language, building design solutions for creators, identifying company-level opportunities, collaborating with Research, Product, and Engineering teams, developing innovative design patterns and systems, mentoring junior designers, and contributing to a multi-phased product overhaul. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in end-to-end product design, a strong portfolio showcasing impactful work, and excellent collaboration and execution skills.
Must have:
  • 7+ years product design experience
  • World-class customer experience creation
  • Strong collaboration & execution skills
  • Deep understanding of design thinking
  • Commitment to craft & product excellence
Perks:
  • Competitive benefits package
  • Equity plans
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Company holidays & recharge days
  • Commuter benefits
  • Lifestyle stipends
  • Learning & development stipends
  • Patronage
  • Parental leave
  • 401k plan with matching

Job Details

Patreon is a media and community platform where creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. Over 300k creators are cultivating fandoms and building their businesses each month. Creators can offer free memberships to fans looking to explore more of their work, paid memberships to give access to exclusive media and community, or sell directly to fans with Shops.

Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:

  • 8B+ earned since Patreon's inception

  • 30M free new memberships in the first year of launching that option, and

  • 10M fans paying each month for exclusive access to creators' work and community.

We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator products with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Staff Product Designer for our Design Foundations team to support our mission.

This role is based in New York or San Francisco and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.

LINK TO AN ONLINE PORTFOLIO, AND PASSWORD IF APPLICABLE, IS REQUIRED

About the Role

Patreon is looking for a Staff Product Designer for the Foundations team to shape the holistic user experience of our platform, ensuring a cohesive, high-quality visual system that integrates seamlessly with our brand. This role sits at the intersection of product design, visual systems, and brand execution, guiding how Patreon shows up across creator and fan experiences. You’ll define and refine our visual product language, enabling designers to work more efficiently while maintaining consistency and excellence.

This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you’ll mentor and support the product design team, work closely with the design system to set standards for UI and interaction patterns, and set the standards that accelerate great design. You’ll help bridge the gap between product and brand expression with strong, opinionated decisions. From redesigning core experiences to refining our navigation and design architecture, you’ll play a critical role in modernizing Patreon’s platform. This role is ideal for an equally visual and systems thinker who thrives on variety.

What You'll Do

  • Define and refine Patreon’s visual product language to enable consistency, efficiency, and excellence across the platform.

  • Build end-to-end design solutions to help bring new offerings to large-scale creators

  • Proactively discover company-level opportunities and help bring clarity and insight through high-fidelity prototypes and expert storytelling

  • Work closely with Research, Product and Engineering to identify, plan, scope and execute end-to-end design solutions

  • Work across the entire design organization to develop innovative patterns and systems that are durable, repeatable and achieve a high standard for craft

  • Create, collaborate, and iterate on prototypes, high-fidelity visuals, and key flows

  • Mentor and support the product design team, setting standards for UI, interaction patterns, and visual craft.

  • Contribute to the visioning, sequencing, tactics, and execution of a multi-phased overhaul of the product

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years of crafting end-to-end product design experiences

  • Highly competent in translating the needs of a target audience to solutions through a holistic and empathetic process

  • Portfolio with demonstrated evidence of shipping world-class customer experiences that have made a significant impact on business metrics

  • Deep organization and execution skills, especially in collaboration with multiple stakeholders

  • Experience in design thinking methodologies to lead teams toward user-centered outcomes

  • A deep commitment to craft & product excellence

  • A humble, collaborative, and service-oriented approach to your career

  • Scrappiness & bias towards action: we’re building the future of creative independence and changing the way art is made

About Patreon

Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:

  • Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win. 

  • Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.

  • Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver. 

  • Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.

We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds across the organization. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. If you’re a creator at heart, are energized by our mission, and share our company values, we’d love to hear from you.

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.

Compensation Range: $216K - $324K

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